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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2602486, member: 10461&quot;]Absolutely.&nbsp; One should ideally leave no trace that one was ever there, and even remove all dug trash rather than reburying it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On some sites, my digging tool is no more than a knife.&nbsp; Recently I switched to something like a Lesche digging tool which is made for the purpose (digging, cutting roots and sod, etc), but in the past I used a Hori-Hori knife which was designed for bonsai gardening, and before that, just a sturdy hunting knife.&nbsp; One does not carry a full-sized shovel onto urban sites without asking for trouble, usually, though nowadays, with my back and knees not what they used to be, I do use a small (half-sized) contractor&#039;s shovel to cut plugs of sod.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my raggedy old Hori-Hori knife, having just revealed the hiding place of a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-the-london-street-coinshooting-adventure-december-2007.287808/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-the-london-street-coinshooting-adventure-december-2007.287808/">1926-D Mercury dime</a>.&nbsp; (The following shots were taken here in my Georgia hometown, not on the England trip.&nbsp; The latter was spent in farm fields, though even in tilled farm fields I always filled my holes.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2F2007-12-15d-digging-Merc.jpg&amp;hash=da29aada3d34e447faf4084e4cbf2000" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some more dig action shots, showing before and after of the sod cutting &quot;plug&quot; technique.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/2008-01-10f-Medal-Dig1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/2008-01-10g-Medal-Dig2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/2008-01-10j-Tidy-Plug.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And since you&#039;re no doubt curious what that find was, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-the-small-squares-of-brunswick-first-digs-of-2008-january-2008.287809/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-the-small-squares-of-brunswick-first-digs-of-2008-january-2008.287809/">here is that particular story</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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